the LITTLE issue six volume sixty-seven - www.thelittlehawk.com City High School 1900 morningside drive, iowa city, iowa 52240 HAWK I t is a fantastical place where groups of people work diligently around contraptions of monstrous pro- portions. Treats of every sort appear in seemingly magical quantities, and mysterious devices perform their duties. Very few know what is really behind the scenes of the City High lunchroom, yet the judgments regarding it abound. ”When it comes to reporting about school kitch- ens, there is a lot of negative press” said Erin Randall, the City High food manager. With all the recent hype surrounding school lunches nationwide, one might think adjustments had only just gotten underway. “In reality, we’ve been implementing changes for the last twenty years, doing things like lowering the sugar and butter content of our foods,” said Cindy Smith, who works for Food Services. “We were doing all of this way before the whole school lunch craze came on T.V.,” said Randall. One such T.V. show is “Jamie Oliver’s Food+ Revolution”, which has garnered a whopping half million signatures for a petition that states: ”I support the Food Revolution. America’s kids need better food at school and better health prospects. We need to keep cooking skills alive.” And in fact, the Iowa legislation has tried to achieve just that goal. There has been continual pres- sure from the Iowa Healthy Kids Act, which establishes guidelines for all foods sold on school grounds during the school day which are not provided by the federal school lunch program (this includes the “a la carte” line, for instance). Changes are never easy to make, especially when kids’ food is being altered. “People always protest at first, but eventually the complaining winds down,” said Randall. “We’re continually trying new stuff, and looking for things that we can make homemade or healthier,” said Randall. One such change made recently was to switch the breading on the chicken patty sandwich to a whole-wheat supplement. Some of the fiercest advocates for change in school food are vegetarians, and the staff has been trying hard to accommodate them. “We’re always striving to incorporate more vegetarian options, and we try to Herculean tasks are performed in the school kitchen every day. In addition to cooking for over one thousand students at City High, the staff also prepare the day’s lunch for six local elementa- ries. This may leave you wondering what happens to all the leftovers. “Whenever possible, we use it for the next day’s lunch. If this won’t work, the spare food gets sent to the local Salvation Army,” said Randall. Further changes are coming next year, namely removing foods whose fat, sugar, or sodium content is above the norm--so be prepared to say goodbye to your favorite bag of chips or your Whitey’s shake. One factor has to remain the same, however. school lunch must provide one-third of the daily nutrition needed for the student. The lunch program is attempting to maintain the flavor of its food while sneaking in extra wholesome variations. As Randall slyly puts it, “There is a lot of hidden healthiness in your school lunch.” by renatastewart A closer look at school lunch
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issue six volume sixty-seven - www.thelittlehawk.com City High School 1900 morningside drive, iowa city, iowa 52240 HAWK
It is a fantastical place where groups of people work diligently around contraptions of monstrous pro-portions. Treats of every sort appear in seemingly magical quantities, and mysterious devices perform
their duties. Very few know what is really behind the scenes of the City High lunchroom, yet the judgments regarding it abound. ”When it comes to reporting about school kitch-ens, there is a lot of negative press” said Erin Randall, the City High food manager. With all the recent hype surrounding school lunches nationwide, one might think adjustments had only just gotten underway. “In reality, we’ve been implementing changes for the last twenty years, doing things like lowering the sugar and butter content of our foods,” said Cindy Smith, who works for Food Services. “We were doing all of this way before the whole school lunch craze came on T.V.,” said Randall. One such T.V. show is “Jamie Oliver’s Food+ Revolution”, which has garnered a whopping half million signatures for a petition that states: ”I support the Food Revolution. America’s kids need better food at school and better health prospects. We need to keep cooking skills alive.” And in fact, the Iowa legislation has tried to achieve just that goal. There has been continual pres-sure from the Iowa Healthy Kids Act, which establishes guidelines for all foods sold on school grounds during the school day which are not provided by the federal school lunch program (this includes the “a la carte” line, for instance). Changes are never easy to make, especially when
kids’ food is being altered. “People always protest at first, but eventually the complaining winds down,” said Randall. “We’re continually trying new stuff, and looking for things that we can make homemade or healthier,” said Randall. One such change made recently was to switch the breading on the chicken patty sandwich to a whole-wheat supplement. Some of the fiercest advocates for change in school food are vegetarians, and the staff has been trying hard to accommodate them. “We’re always striving to incorporate more vegetarian options, and we try to Herculean tasks are performed in the school kitchen every day. In addition to cooking for over one thousand students at City High, the staff also prepare the day’s lunch for six local elementa-ries. This may leave you wondering what happens to all the leftovers. “Whenever possible, we use it for the next day’s lunch. If this won’t work, the spare food gets sent to the local Salvation Army,” said Randall. Further changes are coming next year, namely removing foods whose fat, sugar, or sodium content is above the norm--so be prepared to say goodbye to your favorite bag of chips or your Whitey’s shake. One factor has to remain the same, however. school lunch must provide one-third of the daily nutrition needed for the student. The lunch program is attempting to maintain the flavor of its food while sneaking in extra wholesome variations. As Randall slyly puts it, “There is a lot of hidden healthiness in your school lunch.”
by renatastewart
A closer look at school lunch
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Economics teacher Steve Dodge can bench 600 pounds
Rumor
The voice of Mark Hanson on the announcements is quite entrancing... Just keep listening.
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With Mr. Harper’s position being eliminated next year, the future of the program is uncertain.
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Absolutely true! Congrats to the online editors! Yay us.
Fas Trac will not be continuing next year.
Kind of...
Still a mystery
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TheLittleHawk.com was awarded best high school newspaper Web site in the state.
Reverse senioritis? Many seniors have been re-ported actually listening to announcements.
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He lifted 300 in High School
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Salute to Fire: Mr. Wilson’s annual last day send-off for the AP Chemistry seniors: he spends the entire period lighting things on fire, blowin’ stuff up, and making copius amounts of smoke. Here with help from Elliot Glenn (below), Kanoe Russel (left), and Bradley Nutter (above) he preformed much loved reactions such as the pringles can rocket, the blue bottle flame-jet, and the lycopo-dium powder flamethrower.
Tony Bartman has a new CD coming out
Bartman neither con-firms nor denies this rumor. “I’m waiting for the anticipation to grow.”
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Grrr...
Next year’s seniors will have to make up snow days with underclass-men.
This rumor surfaces every year. But if it’s true this time, SOMEONE WILL PAY.
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Enough.
John Bacon’s favorite food, ironically enough, is is bacon.
Honestly? There’s been too many pork product related jokes going around, and we’re at fault too.
Rumor
True
Mr. Yates was kicked out of orchestra in high school.
This has been confirmed by Mr. Yates himself, but he only tells seniors on their last day this story.
Rumor
What?
Cantaloupe have devel-oped what researches believe to be “sentient cells.”
No, really. What??
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Cantaloupe have devel-oped what researchers believe to be “sentient cells.”
No, really. What??
True fact
Mr. John Hieronymus is trans-ferring his prowess with numbers into the real-estate business after his 37 year teach-ing career.
Mr. Hiero-nymus has de-cided to retire at the end of this school year. Hi-eronymus began teaching math in 1973, and has been at City for __ years.
Hieronymus’ students have been glad to have him as a teacher.
“Mr. Hieronymus was a tough but fair teacher,” Spanish teacher Kapra Hefley said. “I had him for analysis/pre calculus my senior
year (1989). He has not c h a n g e d much, he even looks the same.”
In addi-tion to his t e a c h i n g mathematics, Mr. Hierony-
mus is a property manager.“Next year I am going to man-
age some buildings downtown” Hi-eronymus said.
Hieronymus will be managing a building that will be used for apart-ment housing, retail stores, offices and space for the music depart-ment at the University.
Over Hieronymus’ 37 years of teaching he has taught elementary school, junior high, high school and adult classes.
“I have taught over thousands of students” Hieronymus said. “I just enjoy working with kids and the people who work here.”
theLITTLEHAWKNewsjune 4, 20103 carl sessions
On May 11th the Iowa City School Board unanimously voted to build a third high school in Iowa City. However, a number of factors, or “trigger points”, including fi-nancing, enrollment and academic opportunities are influencing the time frame when this decision will come to have tangible results. .
Before building a third high school the Board has agreed to use all available space at City High and West High, which will involve the controversial moving of some cur-rent west-side students to east-side schools.
“A new high school should not be built until the Iowa City Com-munity School District has both the enrollment and the finances to support it,” John Bacon, soon-to-be principal of City High said. “For these reasons, I believe the ICCSD must change boundaries and move students to City High.”
Soon after the May 11th deci-sion to build a new high school, the Board made another decision drastically changing the district’s current boundary lines in hopes of balancing the enrollement between City and West High. Starting next year, Lincoln and Hills Elementary
School students will be in the City High School district.
Despite these decisive changes, some members of the redistricting committee are concerned about the possiblity that redistric-ing will effect the quality of education cur-rently upheld in Iowa City schools.
“Whatever insures the maintenance of two great, vital comprehensive high schools, while meeting the board’s four re-districting criteria, is what should happen,” teacher representative Robin Fields said.
Another big concern of those involved in the redistricting process is time.
“We can’t delay changes that are needed now because we may, or may not, build a new high school in 10 or 15 years,” said PSTO member Julie Eisle.
Elementary school boundary lines are also coming under ques-tion, as schools Lemme, Shimek and Longfellow debate whether or not to build additions onto their fast-
becoming overcrowded buildings. Building a new elementary school might even be necessary within the next few years.
Other redistricting changes in-clude the trans-fer of students living in Wick-ham Elemen-tary’s “flex area” to the new Gar-ner Elementary School district and Twain Ele-mentary’s tran-sitional housing students to dif-
ferent, yet-to-be-decided schools. A portion of the Lincoln Elementary students will be moved to Horn El-ementary starting next year, as well.
When the third high school will be built is undecided, as is what ex-actly the third high school will look like. Options include a ninth or ninth/tenth grade center, a fine arts school, or vocational school.
Superintendent Lane Plugge is currently planning on assigning a team to “explore the third high school options and present them to the board for a decision on the di-rection for the new school.”
The team will be expected to complete its work by May 31, 2010.
CHS FAME
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Over the next year, an important change is taking place at City High that has some students worried. Fas Trac, a club started to help minority students succeed in school and go to college, will soon be replaced with a new program, FAME.
“I am very excited about this,” City High Vice-Principal Ann Browning said.
The change began with the deci-sion to create a Student Advisory Center for students serving sus-pensions. Beginning next year, the current Freshman Study Hall will be converted into a place where students who have been given suspensions can receive one-on-one help from an ad-visor or teacher while they are serving their suspension.
“We need a place where students can go and connect with an adult to teach them how to be successful in school academically and behaviorally,” Browning said.
The problem arose when the decision was made to combine the position currently held by Mr. Harper, Fas Trac advisor, with the new Stu-dent Advisory Center Supervisor. Mr. Harper did not apply for this new position, which was a shock for many.
“We were very surprised,” Brown-ing said.
Loyal Fas Trac members were
very upset, going so far as to stage a walkout this April, in protest of Mr. Harper leaving City High.
“Fas Trac is an inspiration,” said TC Hamilton, ‘10. “It was meant to bring people together, meant for people who want to accomplish something. Fas Trac is a family within families.”
The goals of Fas Trac will not be leaving City High with Mr. Harper, however, as the organization will expand to include the entire com-munity.
“Fas Trac is going to be an entire community organization outside of school,” said Mr. Harper. “I am happy Fas Trac is still going to be here next year and it will be a big help to push kids in the right direction.”
At City, FAME will fill the void Fas Trac leaves behind. The soon-to-be FAME advisor, Mr. David Brown has spent the last year preparing cur-riculum for FAME and is excited to recruit club members starting next year.
“It is something that will evolve based on students needs,” Brown said.
FAME has some fundamental dif-ferences to Fas Trac.
“FAME has more of an academic focus,” Brown said “However, we don’t see a conflict in a student being in Fas Trac and FAME. They compliment each other.”
Numbers to Numbers
The student success program Fas-Trac is leaving City High next year, anda similar program, by the
name of FAME is being added
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Math teacher John Hieronymus retires from City High, persues real-estate downtown
The ICCSD moves Hills and Lincoln to City in 2011 and approves triggers for third high school
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David Brown: “I’ve worked as a special education teacher since 1999.”
interview
Little Hawk: What’’s your current job at City High?
“Ibelieve the ICCSD must change bound-aries and move stu-dents to City High ”- John Bacon
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Brown: “I do a summer program called the Insti-tute for Higher Learning through the ICCSD and the University of Iowa. It’s a specific program for African Americans. The institute asked me if I could expand it to City High and put focus on leadership and college prep.”
LH: Why did you decide to start FAME?
Brown: “It’s an after school program that provides opportunities for leadership, mentor-ing and college prep.”
LH What will FAME do?
Brown: “I’d like to see our students get more leadership, academic, and mentoring op-portunities to become higher than average students.”
LH: What are your hopes for FAME?
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“Mr. Hiero-nymus was a tough but fair teacher. ”- Kapra Hefley
RedistrictingWhere
will the
lines be
drawn?
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now, briefly
Dalai Lamavisits UNI with grace
His Holiness enters the room. There is a hushed reverence as he addresses the audience. But to-night, the Dalai Lama’s audience is from northern Iowa, not northern India.
On Tuesday, May 18, Tibet’s ex-iled leader spoke at the University of Northern Iowa’s McLeod Cen-ter to a crowd of roughly 10,000 people. Seth Saeugling, ’10, had the opportunity to be a part of that audience.
“[My mother] offered to take me and some friends, and I jumped on the opportunity like a school boy who hungry for some Oreos.”
According to Saeugling, seizing that opportunity was not too diffi-cult. “ “Gaining possession of the tickets wasn’t hard, but required attention and persistence.”
At the assembly, the Dalai Lama shared many nuggets of pro-found wisdom.
“He talked about his life, the struggle, the importance of self-love and the importance of show-ing compassion and caring to your enemies.”
The Dalai Lama’s message of peace highlighted the greater theme of human redemption.
“It’s a scary, dark world out there, but he is a small candle of hope so that we can figure this whole mess we call life out,” Saeugling said.
“Creating consistently progres-sive, acoustic, groundbreaking mu-sic, employing whatever sonic means necessary to do so,” reads part of the Youngblood Brass Band’s online bio. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the nine member group is known for their bumpin’ live sets and con-stantly changing and evolving style of music.
The group came to Iowa City on Wednesday, May 19th, for a concert, clinics and workshops with the City High Jazz bands and other members of the public.
“Whatever sonic means neces-sary to do so” would certainly apply to Wednesday’s concert, which was referred to as “deafening” a number of times.
“Honestly, I thought it was a little loud during the workshop,” said Jazz Ensemble drummer Thomas Fagan. “But then, as it went on, you just went a bit deaf, and it got better.”
Jazz Ensemble Director Michael Moehlmann was enthusiastic after the show.
“How did I think it went? Awe-some. Ultra-awesome,” he said. “I thought things went great.”
His students echoed his senti-ments in a similar fashion.
“It was pretty much the best show ever,” said trumpet player D.J. Martin.
Throughout the afternoon, Moe-hlmann tried to impress upon Jazz Ensemble the unique opportunity they had that day: not many bands are willing to do such workshops and clinics with high school students.
Besides the long, entertaining performance, the band stayed long after the show had ended, talking with fans about their touring sched-ule, their new album, and signing newly bought CD’s and posters.
Moehlmann was impressed by the band’s open, easygoing demean-or on and off the stage.
“What a great group of guys to work with,” he said. “They sat on the apron [of the stage] and talked to people until the auditorium was empty. Not to mention, they have amazing music!”
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SPOT
What do you like about Jazz music? “I really like it because of it doesn’t need lyrics. It’s a stand alone kind
of music-Thomas (lady killa’)
Panther ‘12
“I like listening to the jazz bands when they
are downtown”-James Willging &
Amanda Gerard ‘13
“I think it’s really cool. I enjoy the rythms.”
-Alexandra Perez‘13
“I love Jazz. It’s cool that we can play both Jazz and Classical
music at City High. I like Jazz because there are so many dif-
ferent varities.”-Sam Hartley ‘11
Jazz RazzmatazzJ a z z b a n d p e r f o r m e d w i t h
Y o u n g b l o o d B r a s s B a n d
quiz bowl style!
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Summer events byharrison/carl
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June
Guaranteed to keep you tickled all summer long!
Culinary Row, a showcase of Iowa City cuisine, opens. With over 15 diverse ven-dors selling their food, be sure to come with an empty stomach.
Fr
iday Night Concert
Arts Fest continueswith an art fair featuring over
115 artists, a global village where over 12 countries will be represented, and performanc-es by Orchestra Iowa, Kojokan
Community Dojo, and the Iowa City Community Band design by CARLSESSIONS
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Iowa Arts Fest
5-6
Friday Night Concert Series
spanning all Summer until Septem-ber 17th, the FNCS offers free enter-tainment downtown. Local musicans
play live music from 6:30-9:30The Diplomats of Solid Sound, a soul/funk group from Iowa City play
July Jazz Fest:With an average attendance of more than 50,00, the Iowa City Jazz Festival is a nation-ally recognized event. This year features the Ska group Public Enemy, and as always, all the performances are free
.Shakespeare in the ParkRiverside Theater shows Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost in the Globe-esque Lower City Park stage from June 11- July 11
August11 20-22
Sand in the CityTeams, sponsored by local busi-nesses, come together for a sand castle adn and sculpture building contest of epic proportions
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The New Bodies and William Elliot Whitmore down-
town
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School starts...whopee
“I love me some saxophone!”-Max Friedman ‘13
For three years, Mike Moehl-mann has been the Symphony Band and Jazz Band/Ensemble director here at city High. Now, however, he is moving to Chicago in order to fur-ther his professional jazz performing career.
“It’s just... Great,” Mike Moehl-mann says, describing his career here as a teacher at City High. “I’m going to miss everything, my co-workers, the faculty, the students, everything, it’s just a great place to work!” Moe-hlmann and Dr. Myron McReynolds are the band directors at City High. Moehlmann started working at City High in 2007, replacing John Pringle as Symphony and Jazz band director. Since then, Moehlmann has taken the Jazz band to various competitions and has ranked them among the best in the country.
“I know that the Jazz bands will
continue to be stellar under another director because if I’ve done a good job here, and I hope I have, I feel that anyone can come in after me, during my time, what-ever, and take with what I’ve started with, if I’ve taught students to be good musicians it doesn’t matter who’s in front of them, it’s just someone waving their arms and telling them to do things,”
Moehlmann comments about the future of the Jazz bands at City High. Two weeks ago Friday was the City High Jazz Band performance on the Ped Mall along with the West High jazz bands. Moehlmann de-scribes this performance as ‘bitter-sweet’ and full of finality, realizing that that’s the end of directing the City High jazz bands.
“I think that this year’s Jazz Show-
case concert for a multitude of rea-sons, was one of the best jazz show-case concerts here for a long time, getting to play ‘Complete Life’ with Koplant No at the Jazz Showcase was one of the highlights of my time here at City High.”
Moehlmann com-ments about what stands out to him as a good time that he had at City High. As men-tioned, this year’s Jazz Showcase concert fea-tured the professional band called Koplant No,
and City Highs jazz band was able to play a song with them.
“I don’t mean to crush any hearts, but I am leaving,” Moehlmann said. But it will be difficult for the City High Marching Band and Jazz Band students to get over the loss of their beloved band director going into the Marching Band’s Heck Week 2010.
Worrying about funding isn’t something that most high school teams have to do. However, a lack of money may prevent City’s varsity policy debate team from competing in the premier national tour-nament this summer.
“Noah [Rocklin, ‘10,] and I won the last debate tourna-ment of the regular season and qualified to go,” Senior Luke Allen, ‘10, said. “Our entire year had sort of been leading up to this point.”
The National Forensics League Debate Tournament is seen as the pinacle of high school debating. Teams must
qualify at regional tourna-ments before they can go. City High and Cedar Rapids Wash-ington were the teams from eastern Iowa that qualified.
A lack of funding is a problem that the entire debate team faces.
“The bottom line is that we [City’s debate program] don’t have the money,” Allen said. “Which is really unfortunate, not just for us, but for the message that the school is sending.”
Other debaters are of the same mindset.
“The school should sup-port teams financially so they can travel to compete,” Kieran
Green, ’13, said. “Whether it’s football or debate, they shouldn’t be held back when they have great opportuni-ties like Noah and Luke do. Besides that, doing debate is one of the best things high school students can do. It’s an immensely educational activity.”
Allen and Rocklin, City’s top varsity team, saw success throughout the season. They reached elimination rounds at national tournaments in Chicago and Minneapolis, and competed in finals at local tournaments.
“Noah and I did pretty well this year,” Allen said. “It was a
good season.”As good as their season
was, the lack of funding in the current debate budget may prevent them from topping it off by flying to Nationals.
“It depends on how well our fundraising goes,” Allen said. “But hopefully we’ll be able to make something work.”
If they can’t raise the money and the school won’t increase up its funding, the team will have to pay out of pocket if they want to go.
“I’m not sure we’ll go if we have to foot the entire bill,” Allen said. “I’d like to be able to eat in college.”
carl sessionstheLITTLEHAWK 5News june 4, 2010
Debate Nationals
Film Fest DazzlesOn a certain Friday night,
five dollars can buy you a tick-et to a strange world, where masqueraders socialize in the midst of City High’s greatest video producers.
Friday, May 21: hundreds of patrons costumed them-selves and gathered at Opstad Auditorium to watch student-made productions for an evening. With its big-picture spectacles and entertaining personalities, Film Fest 2010 impressed both its audience and organizers.
“This year was a huge suc-cess; the movies were great,” said Jill Harper, Art Club sponsor and Film Fest orga-nizer.
Her club is in charge of the event, from start to finish. This includes judging video entries, building awards, set-ting up the venue, and run-ning the show. In times past, art teacher Anne Wyrick or-ganized the event. After her position was changed this year, Harper and fellow art teacher Chuck Fletcher had to coordinate it.
“I’m excited to see all of my previous students,” Wyrick said. “It’s relaxing not to do all that work.”
As a student who did work, Gabriel Lawson-Duck was present when the vid-eo submissions were being judged. According to him, the selection process is designed to allow as many student per-spectives as possible.
“We make sure that they all have don’t too much vio-lence and swearing,” he said. ” Quite a large portion gets in.”
Despite the open judg-ing climate, the quality of the films was impressive. “This year [the students] submit-ted a lot of horror movies,” Harper said. “I absolutely love them; the effects were excel-lent.”
Horror films such as Pi-ñata Party by Zach Greimann and Phil Buatti, and Without a Soul by Chris Robertson won Best Picture and Peoples’ Choice, respectively. However, a diversity of films was show-cased, from the cute Banana Boy to the powerful comedy Driver’s Ed, with a few Span-ish project movies.
The mockumentary Cub-ing, by Nathaniel Gier, cov-ered the Rubik’s cube subcul-ture at City. Afterwards, Boris Perkhounov, ’13, acceded to the crowd’s demands and solved a cube onstage in re-cord time.
According to Harper, that’s just one example of how the audience was both engaged by and part of the performance. “The costumes were fantas-tic,” said Harper. “Everyone had a lot of spirit.”
Despite the charismatic stage work of Colin Mcallis-ter, ’11, who was dressed as a beatboxer, the Best Costume Award ultimately went to a group dressed as characters from the movie Up.
After the fun, the mem-bers of Art Club were left with a sizeable reward for their la-bor. “It’s always a good fund-raiser for the club,” said Harp-er. “We’ve had surpluses for a few years now, and we [Art Club] are thinking of taking a trip next fall.”
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Time Capsule2010
City High vice princi-pal Terry Coleman is doing something risky. He’s going to take one of his most prized possessions, his iPod, put it in a plastic box, and leave it in the ground for 30 years. That’s something few of his students would even consider, but he does it for the good of the cause.
Coleman is putting to-gether a City High 70th anni-versary commemoratory time capsule, and he believes the iPod is a necessity.
“There should be an iPod in there. I’m not putting my iPad in, but there should defi-nitely be an iPod.” Coleman said of his sacrifice.
“With the conclusion of our 70th anniversary year, we are hoping to put together a time capsule that will, in a sense, give the people who dig it up in thirty years-- I think
at the 100th anniversary-- give people a sense of what high school was like in 2009-2010.” Coleman said. Besides the iPod, not much is known about what will go into the capsule.
“There are some classes that might put projects in there,” Coleman said. ”A CD of the band, pictures of people and places, that sort of thing.”
Coleman is intentionally vague about the location of the capsule as well. “[The lo-cation] will be top secret. It will be buried somewhere on the grounds, or hidden some-where in the building.”
Wherever the capsule is stowed, it will be dedicated and hidden by the end of the year, with explicit instructions for its removal saved in the City High vault. The instruc-tions will be hidden in an en-velope that will have specific instructions not to open it until 2039.
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Terry Coleman places a yearbook in this year’s time capsule. Other objects include the senior slide show, issues of the Little Hawk, video iPod, sports programs, Interact t-shirt, and other
photo by EmilyMitchell
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Imperium was the film that won Chris Robertson “Best Special Effects.” This action flick centered around a mysterious energy ball and the battle to control it. CGI explosions, blood, and teleportations give the film a big-ticket feel.
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Lack of funding may prevent varsity team from competing this Summer
From top left: Darien Vonk,’12 and an unnamed student consult with each other before their dance off at Film Fest on May 21st. Colin McAl-lister, ‘11, answers host Spencer Lindquist, ‘10, . McAllister dressed as a beatboxer for the evening. Host Luan Haywood, ‘10, looks on as Kanye impersonator Isaac Thompson, ‘10, takes control of the stage.
photos by CARLSessions
En Busca de Amor showed off its actors’ foreign language skills in a genre that every Film Fest needs. A blend between foreign dra-ma and domestic comedy, En Busca was a harrowing portrayal of love gone wrong, and then oh so right...
Piñata Party won the judges’ award for Best Pic-ture. Actors/Directors Phil Buatti, ‘11, and Zach Greimann, ‘11, delivered a chilling story of reversal: a world in which piñatas rule over humans with ruthless repression.
Driver’s Ed warmed the crowd with its engaging (and often hilarious) interchange be-tween lovable dork Marvin (played by Andy Fenneman, ‘11) and his aus-tere driving instructor (played by Ian Stewart, ‘09).
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (seriously!), Jessica BielSynopsis: A team of special forces comman-dos is accused of a crime they did not commit. They escape from military prison, and become mercenaries.The Little Hawk’s Take: This has potential to be one of the best no-apologies action mov-ies ever. I mean it’s based on an 80s TV show starring Mr. T, and there’s a guy named Quin-ton “Rampage” Jackson in it. How could you not love it? Karate Kid
(June 11th)Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Hen-sonSynopsis: 12-year old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is the coolest kid in school... until he moves to Beijing! He gets the crap beaten out of him by Chinese kids, so an old Kung-Fu master (Jackie Chan) teaches him how to fight back.The Little Hawk’s Take: The Karate Kid was excellent, but did it really need to be remade?
Get Him to the Greek(June 4th)
Cast: Russel Brand, Jonah Hill, assorted famous cameos.Synopsis: Record company lackey Aaron Greenburg is charged with taking out-of-control rocker Aldous Snow to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Hilarity ensues.The Little Hawk’s Take: It certainly could be very funny. Aldous Snow was one of the high-lights of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he de-serves his own movie.
Toy Story 3(June 18th)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan CusackSynopsis: Andy is going to college, and the Toys are uncertain of their future. They get do-nated to a daycare center, which may not be what it seems.The Little Hawk’s Take: Pixar hasn’t made a bad movie yet, and this one should be good.
Twilight: Eclipse (June 30th)
Inception(July 16th)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Michael CaineSynopsis: Dom Cob (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a specialist in stealing ideas from the human mind. In one last job he must plant and idea, instead of stealing one.
Salt(July 23th)
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Shrieber.Synopsis: Evelyn Salt goes on the run after she is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent and plotting to assassinate the president.The Little Hawk’s Take: Seems like a rela-tively vanilla action movie, but with Angelina Jo-lie. If it floats your boat. Well, Angelina floats many people’s boats, I guess.
Predators(July 9th)
Cast: Adrien Brody, Topher GraceSynopsis: Mercenary Royce (Adrien Brody) is captured by Predators (vicious aliens) and put on a game reserve on another planet, along with 7 other cold-blooded killers. They must FIGHT to SURVIVE.The Little Hawk’s Take: There are a ton of these movies, but if you’re into aliens killing oth-er aliens (and people), you can’t ask for more than this.
Step Up 3D(August 6th)
Cast: Harry Shum Jr., Alyson Stoner (who?), Channing TatumSynopsis: Street dancing! NYU!!! 3-D!!!!!The Little Hawk’s Take: This is tied with Eclipse for the movie I would be least likely to live through this summer. I thought Step Up 2: the Streets was bad, but this may be worse.
Eat Pray Love(August 13th)
Cast: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, James Fran-coSynopsis: Julia Roberts travels across the world in search for meaning after a painful divorce.The Little Hawk’s Take: This is truly a touch-ing tale of her woman finding her life’s direction in a day and age when doing so is often so com-plicated. In other words, Chick Flick. Pass.
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, Taylor LautnerSynopsis: Blah, blah, blah.The Little Hawk’s Take: How many of these are there? Less than 10?
The Little Hawk’s Take: Everything about this movie looks good to me. The effects look great, the shots well composed, the cast ex-cellent, and what else would we expect from Christopher Nolan, director of the Dark Night.Seriously, that movie was excellent.
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Enduring school lunch could be the most timeless rights of passage experienced by high school stu-dents. At least once in the life of even the most re-ligious “sack-lunch eater”, everyone must file into the small annex of the cafeteria and find some form of sustenance to get them through the day.Being a “sack-lunch eater” my-self, spending third period in the City High kitchens watch-ing over 2,000 meals be pre-pared for students across the city was fascinating. I couldn’t help thinking how every student should get a chance to learn how one of their most important meals of the day is prepared.“Besides where the pizza comes from, I really don’t know anything about school lunch,” Hong Nguyen, ’13 said.This is a problem. It is more important than ever for adolescents to make educated decisions about what they eat. The air of mystery that has surrounded school lunch for decades has only served to worsen student’s apathy about the food they eat. Fortunately someone is thinking about our food. The food service personnel are proud of the qual-ity of the food they serve. “There is a lot of hidden healthiness [in school
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Supervisor, said, as she grinned and nodded.I was excited to learn that there has been an effort at City High to make the food we serve health-ier. For example, the cookies served in the a la carte line are reduced fat and all of the pasta and breading is whole wheat.This added focus on healthy lunches echoes a
larger national sentiment. In recent years food and eating has received a lot of attention. Through this, a push for a more trans-parent food system in our country has been created.Why hasn’t this new desire
to understand what we eat filtered down to teens and school lunches?I believe the problem is two-fold. First, in order for change to occur, students need to care about what they eat and make an effort to learn about what occurs behind the lunch line. Second, school administrators should make a point of teaching kids to care about their food, both where it comes from and how it is made. Giving students the opportunity to learn and care about what they eat could help bring about a stronger, healthier generation.As the saying goes, “We are what we eat.” Adolescents spend their high school years searching for them-selves. Possibly the answer lies no further than Pasta Tues-days.
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From Camps, to vatations, to jobs, The Little Hawk provides all the info you need to know to survive the summer
On June 8th, most City High students’ lifestyles will change. No more 7+ hour school days, no more finals, and best of all; no more homework. It’s the first day of summer. Summer is a time for oppor-tunities, discovering new hobbies and finding your inner self. Or, with City High sports camps, you can find your athletic calling.
City High hosts a variety of sports camps throughout the summer, all for a reasonable cost. Cross Country and Baseball start out the summer beginning June 9th and ending the 11th.
Anybody in grades 4- 12 are welcome to attend the cross country camp. Runners will be introduced to various workouts, and strength programs.
“It is a great camp, with an outstanding staff,” said Erin Danielson ‘13. “It’s an amazing way to start out summer running.”
Baseball camp is available to grades 1-8. The baseball staff and players will be teaching the fundamentals of baseball such as; hitting, fielding, pitching, base running, sliding and catching.
On June 12th, the Cheerleaders will be hosting their camp for girls in grades 1-8. The girls will be introduced to some of City High’s own cheers and routines.
On June 14th the softball team ‘hits off ’ their camp for girls in grades 1-8. During the four days they will practice fundamentals, and playing as a
‘team.’From June 21st- 24th City High wrestling head
coach Brad Smith, along with former and current University of Iowa NCAA All-Americans, and the City High Coaching staff will lead the wrestling camp for boys in grades 3-8.
City High girls’ basketball is having their camp from June 22nd- 25th for girls in grades 3-12. They will teach and improve on the basics of basketball, including game-like situations.
“The basketball camp is really fun because you get to play games, and can win prizes if you make a free throw!” says Bri Hightshoe ‘13.
City high boys’ basketball has a variety of camps throughout the summer. They host their day camp for grades 1-8 from June 28th- July 2nd. They will also have father- son, shooting, 9th/10th grade team, and post-player camps on other days throughout June and July.
The volleyball team and coaches will be hosting their camp from August 2nd- 5th. There will be three separate camps for grades 3-6, 7-8, and 9-12 grades.
“I love volleyball,” said Laura Shepherd ’12. “And I love the City High camp!”
So instead of sleeping away the precious days of summer, get out of bed and sign yourself up for a City High sports camp!
For more information, go to the athletic page on the City High website.
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Wizards, mobsters, animals, goblins, and vagabonds always make sure to stop by the Schlapkohl farm to visit imaginative young campers. Established in 1999, The Country Camp has been an excellent summer location to encourage imaginative thinking in children from age four to fourteen. The farm, home to chickens, geese, goats, sheep, a few cows, rabbits, two dogs, and a pony, houses a pirate ship, a bustling street, a gazebo, and a secluded forest village. Every day at camp, campers and counselors alike immerse themselves in a fantasy world for “imagi-nation time”. The camp works in two week thematic sessions with a film camp at the end, consisting of imaginative plots where campers engage themselves through teamwork and play. Counselors, many of which attend City High, support the children through interaction, providing necessary materials, giving physical help, and, most importantly, playing characters to move the plot for each session. “Our counselors do such a wonderful job of helping the campers use their imaginations and
to enjoy being outside on a farm for the summer,” said Laura Johnson, a co-director and co-founder of Country Camp. “My favorite part of the day is always imagination time, as I am amazed every summer by our campers and the stories and worlds they create at camp.” Most counselors are thespians, singers, dancers, and musicians. Pooling their talents, they fabricate fun in the sun for campers.“I think that it gives students a chance to take on a tremendous amount of responsibility in a fun and supportive environment,” said Johnson, “Our counselors do such a wonderful job of helping the campers use their imaginations and to enjoy being outside on a farm for the summer. It’s great for stu-dents to work as counselors as it’s an opportunity to develop their skills working as leaders and teachers. Our counselors also get to learn about farm/garden work and animal care, and of course get to exercise their theatrical skills during imagination time and in the movie that we make during Film Camp.” “We get to hang out with awesome kids and the other great staff,” said Cole Hotek ’11, a camper for five years and a counselor for three, “No one else can say they get to make up characters and fight little kids in epic (play) battles for their jobs!”
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Who?: any person that has at least a little bit of coordination.When?: During daylight hours are the best, but some people have gone at night on occasion.Where?: Sugar Bottom at Lake McBride or Turkey Creek at Coralville dam.Why?: A lot cheaper than normal golf, but just as fun.
Who?: Anyone that can swim.When?: City Park Pool hours are usually 1 to 8 P.M.Where?: City Park Pool, Mercer Pool, The Robert A. Lee Rec Center, or the fieldhouse pool.Why?: Swimming on a hot summer day can be extremely bennifical to heart and soul, plus you can get your tan on.
Who?: Anyone that wants to exercise and get rid of excess energy while still having fun.When?: Any time before 11 P.M. as long as the area isn’t reserved or occupied.Where?: The original Iowa Fieldhouse on the west side of the river by the hospital or the new field house by the University Power Plant which will open in agust.Why?: The fieldhouse can provide hours of enjoyment all summer long.
Who?: A teen that wants something to do and also cook.When?: When the appitite is strong.Where?: most locations are acceptable as long as you have a means of grilling. Why?: Grilling is a very usefull skill that you can use for the rest of your life and it’ll aslo impress your friends when you grill for them.
Who?: Anyone that has a rod.When?: Any time as long as you have ac-cess to the area where you want to fish.Where?: Any body of water, lakes and rivers usually have better numbers of fish.Why?: fishing may seem boring, but it’s a great excuse to sit around and do nothing but eat, drink soda, and joke around with your friends.
Who?: Outdoor enthusiasts and any one what wants to explore.What?: Exploring the trails, laying on the beach, fishing, climbing the spillway, looking for fossils, or doing anything near the Coralville Rezivoir.When?: During park hours, usually morning to evening.Where?: Anywhere on the Coralville rez.Why?: The rezivoir has countless num-bers of things to do.
How to obtain a job:1: Decide what your skills are and what you enjoy doing.2: See if what you decided in Step 1 could be applied to a job. Nose-flutist gigs are pretty rare.3: Find an employer that would accommodate that job (Fig. 1). The devil currently has a few openings.4: See if the employer is hiring.5: Figure out if the employer requires a resume* or an application form.6: Write a resume if the employer requires one (for BPA kids) or fill out an application form (Fig. 2).7: Submit the application form or resume to the employer.8: Wait for the employer to call you back. Then again, maybe they wont.9: Schedule an interview with the employer once they contact you. Try to look presentable.10: Obtain the nessecary job training once you are hired.11: Start working your hours and getting paid
From Camps, to vatations, to jobs, The Little Hawk provides all the info you need to know to survive the summer
*Most part-time jobs for teenagers do not require resumes
RULE #1: Sunscreen is your best friend, so you should use it.RULE #2: Never eat your friends pink meat (when they are grilling).RULE #3: Just because the field house will require memberships doesn’t mean that there isn’t a way to get in for free.RULE #4: If there isn’t something to do, just go to city park pool.RULE #5: If you text a friend asking what they are doing and they never reply, don’t send more messages.RULE #6: Friends don’t let friends get super bored.RULE #7: Summer boredom isn’t an if, it’s a when, so you need to figure out how to get it to stop and last for as short as possible. (See RULE #4)RULE #8: Get a job!RULE #9: Wearing jeans in the summer only makes you even more of a tool, the proper summer break atire is sandals, shorts, sunglasses, and a t-shirt.RULE #10: Learning how to cook or grill can be the most usefull skill you could ever obtain over summer break.
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goalsThe Little Hawk, the student newspaper of City High School, aims to inform, educate and entertain readers; to provide an edu-cational opportunity for the students who produce it; and to provide a medium for commercial advertising.Equity StatementsEnglish Version:It is the policy of the Iowa City Commu-nity School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic status in its educational programs, activities, or employment practices.
If you believe you have (or your child has) been discriminated against or treated un-justly at school, please contact the Equity Director, Ross Wilburn, at 509 S. Dubuque Street, 319-688-1000.
Spanish Version:Declaración de Equidad:Es la política de Iowa City Community School District no descriminar en base a raza, credo, color, género, origen, religión, edad, estado civil, orientación sexual, estado de veterano, incapacidad, estado socio-económico en sus programas educacionales, actividades, o políticas de empleo.
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In wake of evolving North Korean drama, the massive BP oil spill and Israel’s conflict with Gaza, the nation’s attention has shifted to the international stage. However, the event that
took place a month ago in Arizona should not be forgotten.
Its new immigration law, SB 1070, makes it a state offense to not carry proof of citizenship within its borders. Additionally, it broadens the powers of local police, essentially allowing them to function as immigration agents. It forces law enforcement of-ficials to determine the immigration status of any-one they encounter during a “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” Also, the ruling makes it mandatory for officers to enforce immigration laws to their fullest extent.
Together, these provisions form the strongest anti-immigrant legislation in the country. Despite attempts to water down the law’s racist nature, it, along with all other conservative immigration poli-cies, still sends the same fundamental message: “You are different. You are not wanted here.”
When Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was asked what an undocumented im-migrant looks like, and how police are
expected to know who to be suspicious of she re-sponded: “I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. But I can tell you that there are people in Arizona who assume they know what an illegal immigrant looks like.”
Despite this doubletalk, it’s obvious who the law will be targeted towards: people with brown skin. One third of Arizona’s population is Latino, and as a result of this bill they will be suspect to state-sponsored racial profiling. In response to criticism, the Arizona legislature made sure that officer won’t “solely consider race, color or national origin.” By allowing race to become a factor in law enforce-ment, the law opens the door for it to be the de-ciding factor. A multitude of groups are calling the new law racist. The Cuban parliament declared it as a law of a “deep racist and xenophobic nature.” The Muslim American Society condemns the bill, call-ing it “the legalization of racial profiling.”
When the Arizona legislature wrote the law, they made sure that officers can’t “solely” consider race, color, or national origin when they determine
someone’s immigration status. At this point, Arizona has conceded that there will be ra-cial profiling as a result of its actions. Even if race isn’t the only factor in an arrest, there is nothing stopping it from being the determining factor. In essence, the legislation condones racism by trying to minimize it.
According to the text, officers can take legal measures when there is “reasonable suspicion” that the sus-
pect is an illegal immigrant. This vagueness leaves the decision totally up to the individual officer. Police will be forced to make judgment calls about what ille-gal immigrants look like while striving to be politically correct. Innate bigotries will be allowed to blossom, and an officer if they desired, could demand identification from any-one they come into “le-gal contact” with. This
law renders immigrants politically invisible and places
them under potential attacks from both the state and its citizens. For years, we have been hearing
that immigrants bring with them un-employment and economic decline. Yet
this rhetoric falls apart when confronted with facts. A study by the Pew Hispanic Center couldn’t find any correlation between high unemployment and rising immigration rates. In the 10 states with highest employment rates from 2000-2004, five showed a high in-flux of immigrants.
The biggest economic effect of Arizona SB 1070 has nothing to do with employment, however. As a direct result of the new law, the state could lose about 90 millions dollars due to boycotts organized by cities and organiza-tions. The illegal immigrants fill a necessary niche in our economy; they often do the least desirable jobs, and often at the lowest wages. It is racist and exclusionary to assume that US citizens deserve jobs more, simply because of their status in our society. More-over, it is economically disastrous to think otherwise.
Next, promoters of the legislation claim that it’s a necessary enforcement mea-sure against illegal immigration that would somehow
reduce crime. While it is
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that some of the drug cartel violence on the Mexi-can border has spilled into Arizona, and that the federal government has failed to control it, there is no analysis of how detaining random illegal immi-grants will solve the problem. But the law focuses on migrant workers, the very people who do the worst jobs for the lowest wages. Deporting these people doesn’t change anything: as long as there are huge incentives to cross the border, they will come seeking employment and wages they could not find in their home countries.
But the main threat on the Arizona border, drug traffickers and human smugglers, will be shielded from the law. These are the people who can pay for fake citizenship documents, who don’t care about deportation or fines.
An effective immigration law should target the perpetrators of cross-border violence. Arizona SB 1070 punishes every illegal immigrant as if they were all guilty.
For those who say that illegal immigration is a crime in itself, we ask, who is hurt by it? If we con-struct laws to preserve people’s lives, liberties, and their pursuits of happiness, then why is it illegal for someone to step over an imaginary line between two countries? It is fundamentally wrong to detain someone based on where they are located, not on account of their actions.
The idea that the United States should be closed against foreigners is a dangerous one. Seeing our-selves as a detached state, with defined borders that are necessary to keep others out places imaginary constructs above human lives.
Borders are human, imagined constructs, while human lives are real. This bill comes at a time where immigration reform is indeed necessary, but in-stead of bending to our xenophobic nature, change is needed. Providing social services to immigrants, decreasing the extensive paperwork that is cur-rently keeping immigrants from being here legally, and helping immigrant’s native countries economic conditions via trade and subsidies all should be done to send a message of hospitality towards the international community.
The idea of us in the center and a group of wild people on the outside that will harm our country if we let them in without strict procedural bureau-cratic paperwork makes real the constructs that some people have in their minds. We Americans are fundamentally different than people from other countries.
The United States’ immigration policies need to be changed; and the notion of hospitality must be reconsidered. The abuses that Arizona’s new law endorses, and indeed causes, are evocative of the idea of the ‘safe home’-a place where we belong and are entitled to, a place that has borders to maintain security and keep danger out. The borders are val-ued, and they even help to define who we are. Our ‘safe home’ marks ‘us’ from ‘them’, and we seldom let ‘them’ in. Living in this kind of security blanket runs the risk of not just rejecting people from our territory, but from humanity itself.
Immigrants come to the United States to seek asylum or refuge. Arizona’s new law is a thoughtless reaction to the influx of people, based on a harmful ideology based not on facts, but on hate. Changing the way we view immigrants, as well as streamlining the citizenship process, means fundamen-tally changing the definition of “American,” a necessary step towards understanding and respect.
Have you ever been emotionally, verbally or physically bul-lied? 30% of teenagers around the country have been. Bullying is act of repeated aggressive behavior used to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally. Many people participate in this because of the feeling of power over another person. Be-havior can include name calling, verbal or written abuse, exclu-sion from activities, exclusion from social situations, or physi-cal abuse. Bullies may behave this way to be seen as popular or tough to get attention. They might bully out of jealousy or act out because they themselves are bullied.
Few know who to turn to or what to do in the event that bulling does happen.
“I think it’s a problem throughout your life,” said Welcome Center teacher Emily Dvorak. “Through school and college and even in the workplace and out in the world.”
Teachers take classes to try to help students have outlets to express concerns and worries.
“It’s also my job to learn skills and strategies to help kids deal. I think the bottom line is to help,” said Dvorak.
City High senior, Luis Cardona started getting bullied in first grade.
“I didn’t know English. Because I was a different I was bul-lied.”
Bullying takes place in every community and affects every-one if nothing is done to change the situation.
“It really did go on until I was older. People would try to bully me, but it stopped after a while,” said Cardona, “I moved to Iowa City and I thought it was going to be different, but it wasn’t. So I changed. I had to stand up for myself.”
Thousands of students are affected by bullying, but they aren’t the only ones worried. Parents and teachers don’t always see bul-
lying happen, so they don’t understand how extreme it can get. Cyber bullying and verbal abuses are common ways to bully that are less noticeable to observers.
“I had a friend who was Internet bullied a lot and he com-mitted suicide over it. Someone got a photo of him and put it around school ,”said Cardona. . “The more you focus on it the more you feel badly about it.”
Adults and teachers are trained to help in all types of situa-tions, but sometimes the students are not taken seriously or the measures taken against the bullies do not help.
“As educators I think it’s our jobs to help kids have outlets to express their concerns and worries about bullying,” said Dvorak. “If you turn your back you’re no better than the person who’s doing the bullying.”
Students that are bullied often take the problems into their own hands and resort to violence or ultimately commit suicide.
“Violence? It wasn’t the way to go but I had to do something,” said Cardona.
Often the problems caused by bullies are not resolved with further violence and can make matters worse. The actions taken should involve others, people who will help. Cardona agrees.
“You shouldn’t go into violence, you should talk to somebody, talk to someone who’s going to get you help.”
Students who see bullying take place should report it to an adult, but in some circumstances they don’t. This can be be-cause they fear being bullied themselves, or feel it isn’t any of their business. Even adults have to look closely at the situation to make the right decisions.
“There are so many gray areas. You have to look at every situation and dig a little deeper to make sure that it actually is bullying or that you follow up on it,” said Dvorak. “It’s hard to understand if it’s just innocent teasing.”
The issue will continue to be a problem in our own com-munity and throughout the nation as stories of bullying and its consequences make national headlines. By not making proac-tive decisions and policies about bullying we contribute to the problems.
Senior Lian Markovich agrees that sometimes we as students and members of the community don’t take the necessary mea-sures to help solve the issue.
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We depend on our school board to find ways to assure eq-uity in our schools. The school board must value diversity, and understand the importance of living as a cohesive school system in order to provide leadership on an issue that has divided our community.
The solution that the Iowa City School Board agreed on will continue to divide people who were once friends and give the impression that an equitable school system is not important. The board decided to disregard the economic percentages of Free-Reduced Lunch, which they have been using to measure poverty levels within the schools and instead have made their goal to balance enrollment between the two high schools. The board felt comfortable making this decision because people of privilege in our community support it. By making this decision the board is teaching all students in our district that what re-ally matters in life is having money. With money, a person can get whatever they want and pretend that it is best for every-one. They can even rearrange the truth so that others believe they were looking out for all students. By not balancing poverty levels, the board is ensuring that Iowa City will widen social divides and that those of privilege won’t have to live with diver-sity and will raise their children to be ignorant of its value and fearful of the unknown.
When the school district began the redistricting process, the Board believed balancing poverty levels was in its best interest. When an attempt to balance demographics was made, parents protested it. Students do have to be moved around and bused to schools farther away in order to balance FRL numbers. This is because schools like Wickham, Lincoln and Shimek have single digit FRL percentages while Mark Twain has 65.4% FRL. The percentage of FRL students feeding into City High is 33.1% and at West High it is 22.8%.
West side parents have claimed time and time again that el-ementary schools with high FRL percentages that currently feed into City High should not be switched to West High because “It will be hard for kids who can afford less to have to mix with kids who are provided with so much more.” They are indirectly stating that West High is the school of privilege, and kids of less privilege should not go there. Preventing more students of pov-erty from moving into their schools has become the main goal of West side parents. Unfortunately the school board is quick to bend to their demands, enabling them to use their power to segregate the schools.
Parents argue that elementary schools should not switch to
feeding into the other high school because they will not have neighborhood schools. High Schools of 1500 students are not meant to be neighborhood schools. There is no way that all of the attending students will live in surrounding neighborhoods or even close enough to walk. Neighborhood high schools would have to be similar to the size of Iowa City’s elementary schools. Smaller high schools offer fewer classes, fewer op-portunities and fewer students to choose from to compete for the school in sports, music and other activities. Smaller high schools are not the optimal choice.
Wickham parent’s main argument for why their children should not attend City High is that the commute on the inter-state to City High is dangerous. These parents claim to fear for their children’s lives. They argue that if their child chooses to drive to school instead of taking the provided bus transporta-tion, their kids will have the option of driving on the interstate, and they will be in much more danger than they were commut-ing to West High. For this reason, school board member Tuyet Dorau requested numbers showing a comparison of various roadways in the urbanized area in terms of collision frequency. The results showed that when traveling from Wickham to WHS the collision rate is 9.1 and travel time is around 10 minutes, but when traveling to CHS via Dubuque St the collision rate is 8.1 and travel time is around 19 minutes, and to CHS via I-80, the collision rate is the lowest, at 2.7 and the travel time is around 18 minutes. These results show that it is safer to travel from Wick-ham to CHS, no matter which roadway you choose to go, than to travel from Wickham to WHS. yet these results were never made public by the school board members who requested them and Wickham parents continued to use their invalid argument. Could this be because the results did not support the argument used by the people of power?
In the article, “Broad Support for changing Iowa City School Boundaries, multiple reasons why”, written by Gregg Hennigan for the Press Citizen in October 2009, Noga O’Connor, a vis-iting professor of sociology of education at the University of Iowa, was quoted multiple times. She said that free or reduced lunch can be a euphemism for black students. She stated that test scores as a whole may suffer at schools that see increases in such students, but most students should benefit culturally from the diversity and more affluent students shouldn’t see their learning negatively affected.
“An affluent white student is going to be a strong student almost no matter what,” she said. “The black students, however, really benefit from attending those schools that have a more af-fluent population that have greater resources.”
Did the School Board not find Noga O’Connor privileged enough to be listened to? City High students can either learn from the School Board that power and privilege will get you what you want or students can learn from their principal, Mr. Hanson, that what is important in life is to do the right thing and stay true to yourself and your values.
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Greek goat therapy.
Doitchland (purposely mis-spelled, WSS).
KFC Double Down: raw innovation.
The World Cup on ESPN.
Making whoopie.
Air conditioning.
One day left of school.
Socialism <33
Man dresses.
Livin’ my life.
Garry gum.
Beeteedubz.
Foreign Film Tuesdays.
Havin’ swag.
Ants.
Sweat.
KFC Double Down: tastes double bad.
Billions of grad parties.
Wet underpants.
People that talk about working at Hy-Vee.
Sophomore-full parking lot.
BP.
AIDS in South Africa.
Finals.
African techno music.
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They’ve got the money, They’ve got the talent (usually), and they’ve got the nerve to change their names fool-ishly at their every whim.
All throughout the US, celebrities compulsively change their names to suit their persona’s. Yet by doing so they cave in to the materi-alistic and vain world that so many famous and amazing people find so tempting.
Changing your last name, unless its obviously vulgar orembarrassing, is kind of like betraying your family. Last names are a symbol of who a person is. Often, par-ents will name their offspring in honor of somebody impor-tant to them, such as a fam-ily member. In the Medieval Ages, every name in royalty had its own crest to symbol-ize blood-line, and f a m i l y crests were worn with pride. Par-ents bear c h i l d r e n with the intention of passing on their l e g a c y . N a m e changing severs a c o n c r e t e bond in families.
Whether or not a name invokes emotions in oth-ers is not dependent on the name itself, but rather, the reputation of the name. A famous example is “Volde-mort”, or as he is commonly referred to, “He Who Must Not Be Named,” or, “You Know Who”. If my name was “Voldemort” If somebody is determined to build a repu-tation for themselves, their name will be known not by its sound or “Hip-ness”, but by the person who bears it. Changing your name, does not change who you are.
In the play The Crucible Arthur Miller’s character John Proctor pleads with the cruel gentry of Salem, “How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
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As Jessica Yagla ran to the finish line at the state track meet, no
one really knew what place City High finished. Jessica pushed so hard for a second place finish that she wiped out as she crossed the finish line.
After she crawled off the track she went and asked her teammates what place she finished. They were not sure until they looked up at the scoreboard to see that they in fact had finished second.
“Jess was pushing so hard, and clipped second in the 4x800 relay,” said coach Mariah Ritter. “We coach-es were so happy once we knew she was okay.”
City High placed third overall at state with 61 points. West High was first with 91 points and West Des Monies Dowling was second with 67 points.
“City was projected to be placed no higher than sixth or seventh place, but we placed third,” said Jordan Sul-livan ’12.
The girls’ team had 17 events qual-ify for state.
“It was really fun to just hang out during free time and eating at Drake Diner was really fun,” said Erin Dan-ielson ‘13
City High had many personal re-cords and seasons best times broken at the state meet. Rebecca Rethwisch ‘11 placed forth at state in the 3000 meter run and sixth in the 1500 me-ter run. Meg Richardson placed 10th in the 3000 and Emily Fagan placed eighth in the 1500.
“It was a little scary last year at state and I had a bad race,” said Rich-ardson. “Its satisfying to feel better and to know that you can do that.”
Stephanie Brooks jumped a per-sonal record of five feet four inches in the high jump which placed second.
Virginia Johnson also placed fifth with a jump of five feet two inches.
“Everyone was excited about their performances and enjoyed running, jumping and throwing at the meet,” said Ritter.
The 4x800 meter relay which fin-ished second was ran by Fagan ’10, Jill Stephenson ’10, Erin Danielson ’13 and Yagla ’10.
“It was a really great experience to be able to run at state as a freshman,” said Danielson. “It was a great place to run with a lot of competition.”
City’s distance medley placed sev-enth; the 4x200 meter relay placed fifth; the shuttle hurdle relay place seventh and the 4x100 meter relay placed second.
“It would have been nice to beat West,” said Richardson. “Both city and west worked hard this year and West deserved it. West is also losing alot of seniors this year which may give us a chance for next year.”
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Girls track places third at state
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Kelsey Coleman ‘11 completes a hand-off to Jessica Yagla ‘10 in the distance medley at the Dis-trict track meet May 14 2010.
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JV track JV girls beat West Highboys take second at
MVC Girls Track has a bright future.
“Next year there will be many girls returning,” said Coach Tom Mittman. Next spring City High girls Track will be looking a pretty young team with a lot of returning athletes.“We will be working to build a foun-dation for a strong future,” Said Mitt-man.
“This year we had a deep hurdling squad and shot-put and discus con-
tribute also,” said Mittman.City high girls are determined by training and are motivated by varsity athletes on the team.City’s JV beat West at three meets and placed first at many meets this year also.“The future is bright for next year,” said Mittman.”City high JV boys track has alot to look foward to next year with many prospects for varsity.“Everyone stepped up to do the job before them.” said Coach Tom Carey.This year Citys JV performed well at many meets.“There are many JV athletes that are already running at the varsity level.” said Carey.Some runners to look for are Adam Ledger, Thomas Fagan, Hugh Ritter, Tate Thompson, Mohamed Traore. As well as throwers Tanner Odle and Matt Lee.City high JV boys track has alot to look foward to next year with many prospects for varsity.“Everyone stepped up to do the job before them.” said Coach Tom Carey. By Emily Mitchell
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ABOVE: Alex Christophersen ‘12 serves against West at City High. BELOW: Nathaniel Geer and Phil Riley play their way into one of the state’s top seeded doubles team as coach Chip Hardesty agonizes over a tough loss to West. The team was eliminated in the round of 16 by Bettendorf. The team’s best finish in the last eight years.
Tennis Sussanna Howard advances to state boys eliminated
in the round of 16
On Friday, June 4th Susanna How-ard will competet in the Iowa State tennis tournament.
The boys team was eliminated by Bettendorf in the round of 16.
“We played well, but Bettendorf is
one of the top four teams in the state. We did defeat one of the other
final four team’s in C.R. Kennedy 6 to 3 earlier in the year. It was tough to come to an abrupt end for a close knit like ours,” Chip Hardesty said
By Emily Mitchell
City High boys finished their season placing 14th at the
state track meet. “This has just been a great track
season and I’m very proud of the way we represented city high school,” said Coach Tom Carey.
City had 13 events qualify for state and 21 boys competed at state.
Bobby Millard ’11 placed second in the long jump with a jump of 21 feet 10 and half inches.
“The team competed like they were at state, “Said Carey. “They had the attitude that belonged at a state meet.”
Scott Mittman ’10 placed second in the 3200 meter run along with placing forth in the 1600 meter run.
“I will miss the seniors that are leaving us this year, we had a very strong varsity group,” said Carey. “We have a great junior group who will be great leaders, the sophomores and the freshman are very strong runners. We will have an exciting season next year.”
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An exciting moment for any coach is win-ning, but being able to win as a team is even better.
“The Divisional meet was a great team meet,” Tom Carey, head coach of the boys track team, said. I cor-rected this style.
At the 2010 MVC meet the varsity boys track team won with 135 points in front of West High’s 115.
“This was an outstanding team effort. Everyone stepped up to do the job before them, and the results were fun to see. Our seniors have led us well all year long, and they continued to at the conference meet,” Carey said.
The 9th and 10th grade team came in second behind Waterloo West, but picked up 108 win-ning the 200, the medley, the 4 x 100, and the
low hurdles.Coach Carey started coaching basketball in
1990, and had experience coaching football be-fore he ended up at City High, coaching track.
“I got the idea to be a coach when I was an athlete back in school,” said Carey. “There aren’t many places where you can get that great feeling
of satisfaction, but coaching is one of them.”
The first year Carey joined the City High coaching squad, the team picked up a state title.
“It was a really fun experi-ence,” Carey said,” it’s always great to watch success happen.”
Carey has always had a pas-sion about track. Carey’s goal is to teach the boys about team-work. He also wants the boys to find what they are good at,
and for everyone to use their skills for the bet-terment of the team.
“Everyone has something to bring to the team, down to the last runner,” added Carey.
For Jan Grenko, softball is nothing new. Having played for the 1989 National Softball Coach of the year Larry Niemeyer, she was taught by the best of the best.
Now, she’s on the other side of the bench, as the freshman- sophomore softball team coach.
“I have always loved softball,” said Grenko. “And I have always wanted to be a coach.”
Grenko is no newbie to coaching. This is the second time around for her as a coach for City High.
“I coached from 1990-1999. 6 years as the head coach, and then 4 years as freshman- sophomore. I took a two year brake, and came back again as the freshman- sophomore coach.”
Grenko is also experienced in coaching other sports, leading her freshman volleyball team to an undefeated season this past year.
“I hadn’t coached volleyball for 16 years. It was a learning experience,” said Grenko. “It
was one of my favorite coaching memories. That team accomplished so much, and had great chemistry.”
For this softball season, she is setting her goals high.
“Our goal is to win at least 20 games. Last year we had a winning season, and we want to do it again.”
Grenko has changed many girls’ lives as it comes
to softball, and volleyball. “Grenko is my favorites coach I have ever
had.” said Mikayla Heath ‘13. “ She has been my softball and volleyball coach.
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A new look to the Bates field bleachers
With only 3 seniors on the varsity team this year, Head Coach Dennis Knoop is looking for something else this year for the boy’s baseball team.
“This will be a growing season,” said Knoop, “There are no expectations.”
Coach Knoop is heading into his 18th year of coaching at City High with a 230-84 record. This isn’t including his previouse coaching experience as a 13 year old coaching Iowa City’s Babe Ruth League.
He has managed to coach 2 players to the minors straight out of high school, including former player Jon Gilmore ’07. Gilmore was drafted first round into the minors to play for the Cincinnati Braves.
Another one of Coach Knoop’s success stories came from Zack Hammes, class of 2002. With a 94 mph fastball, Hammes was drafted into the
minors representing The Dodgers straight out of high school. He still continues to play minor league ball today for The Red Sox.
This season has gotten off to a wet start this year with all the rain that has taken place but
Coach Knoop has found a way to keep the players practicing.
“There’s been limited gym space,” said Knoop, “but I get them in the batting cages at Mercer.”
In the past, Coach Knoop coached 9 teams to conference championships and coached the 1995 team to be State Runner-ups. The 1999 team walked away undefeated.
This year’s team is looking promising according to Coach Knoop. He is expecting to see large improvement in the team as a whole and hopes for a great season for the 17- member varsity.
by liliana coelho
by jacob simmons
When City High students return for the 2010-’11 school year, the way they watch football games, track meets, the marching band, and many other activities on the football field will be seen in a whole new way.
Walking down to the track it can be seen that the home team bleachers have already been removed. Con-struction of the new benches will begin in June.
The new benches and other vari-ous improvements for the track will cost $680,000. Construction should be completed in August,
just in time for the football season to begin.
“The new benches will be made of all aluminum and will hold 300 more people than before,” said as-sistant principal Terry Coleman. “Our hope is that the nice, new, clean bleachers will make watch-ing any outdoor activity more en-joyable.”The current bleachers are over 60 years old and were most recently redone in 1946.
“The bleachers are 20 years over-due,” said Coleman. “The school is also wanting to redo the bath-rooms and the sky box, but to do this the school will need to have a private fundraiser. We can hope-fully fix up the restrooms and sky box by the next summer.”
The goal is to make it to the state tournament. This is no different, except for the new head coach for the girl’s soccer team, Theo Opitz.
Opitz has been coaching soccer for ten years. Previously he coached for West Branch and is currently the Coaching & Referee director for the Iowa City Kickers soccer club.
“I want City High soccer to be a strong program,” Opitz said, “But keeping up with most of the players on runs has been the most exciting for me.”
This year the weather has put City High in-side for many of the practices. These practices consist of: biking for a half hour and small sided games or drills for the remainder of the time.
“It’s hard to keep a positive attitude when we are stuck inside everyday,” said Sarah Hichwa, freshman on the varsity squad. “We just have
to try to keep our heads up, and work towards state.”
With only four seniors on the team, a lot of the girls are new to the city high program. Get-ting to know each other and learning to work as
a team is a big part of City high sports programs.
“The most exciting moments for me are when things we work on in practice show up in games,” said assistant coach Ryan Stew-art. “I also like the team meals, because they are great for team bonding and it helps me to get to
know the players better.”Before almost every game this year, the
team, coaches and players alike, would gather at a players house for a hardy meal before the up-coming game. These “Team Dinners” have been one of many attempts to bond as a team.
“We are overcoming many obstacles and growing as a team on and off the field,” said Jil-lian Reynolds ‘10 and Ashley Fuller ‘11.
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Lap after lap the boys soccer team runs around grassy Schrader Field preparing for upcoming sub state.
The team finished up the regular season with a 6-0 defeat over Waterloo East. Tay-lor McBurney ’11 had three goals in the game.
“We finished the sea-son strong” said Luke Mennen 13’.
Spencer Gordon and Zach Mennen each con-tributed a goal. Tyler Chavez 12’, Ike Eyman Casey ’13 and Aaron Mc-Donough ’12 had assists.
One of the team’s leading scorers is sophomore Tyler Chavez who has 6 goals. Chavez scored City Highs
only two goals against top ranked Iowa City West earlier in the season. Chavez also plays on a travel team.
“The farthest we have been has been Costa Rica for a tournament this February,” Chavez said. “We play around 25 games in a summer.”
With all the off season games the team has more skills going into next years season.
“We are going to have a more expe-rienced team next year” said Luke Mennen 13’.
Last year they finished up the season 10-9, which also failed to qualify for state.
JD McCullough ’11 had a game high four goals and one assist in the May 11th game against Cedar Rap-ids Xavier.
“Our goal is to go to State this year” said Jason Tiemeyer 12’
A goal they accomplished.City High earned a first
round bye for sub-state. In the second round they ad-vanced with a 4-0 victory over North Scott.
In a thrilling 4-3 win over fifth ranked Bettendorf they qualified for state.
At state they will be against 2nd seeded Ankeny (17-1) June 3rd. The ast appearance at state for City High was 2001.
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Kicking up grass and dirt the girls soccer team prac-tice another day at Schrader field by Longfellow looking to qualify to state. “We had a slow start
but we improved a lot of the s e a -s o n , ”
s a i d Molly Pow-ell Littler ‘13. “We have a young team.”
The varsity roster consist of ten freshmen. One of the highest
leading scorers are Erin Daniel-
son 13’. “With all our
talented underclass-men we should be real good next year,” said Cassie Ricci ‘10
The reg-ular season f i n i s h e d with a 3-0 victory over Waterloo East. Abby Schroder ‘12 had all three goals in the game.
“We played a re-ally well game” said Melanie O’Meara ‘13.” A lot of team-work.”
Though having a young team there is experience from the few upperclassmen. Jessica Yagla and
Cassie Ricci will be competing college next year.
Yagla will go play at the University of
Iowa and Ricci will play at Wart-burg
“Our goal is to make it to state” said Ricci.
The last state ap-pearance for the Lit-tle Hawks was 2003.
On Tuesday, The Girls took thier first kick twards the big goal winning 9-0 against Burrlington.
“It was Good Stuff,” said Powell Littler.
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didn’t want to stop. LH: Why did you do it?WB: Because I wanted to do something really radi-cal. I had never done it before.LH: How do you overcome physical pain?WB: I use healing imageryLH: What’s one question you want me to ask?WB: What’s your best 1500 time?LH: And the answer?WB: 4:31. I lapped people
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BUILDING TRADITION Boys to face Ankeny at State Girls keep improving
The City High boys and girls varsity players Erin Danielson ‘13, Luke Mennen ’13, Jess Yagla ‘10, Taylor McBurney ‘11, Zachary Mennen ‘11, and Alex Evans ‘10 show their skills at the annual City-West soccer games.
“We finished the season
strong” -Luke Mennen
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Landon Donovan:
With a seemingly endless supply of energy and skill, it is no wonder Landon Donovan of Team USA is one of this years players to watch. In 2009, Dono-van earned his third U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year award and ended the season as the all time leader in goals (42) and assists (42). These are just a few of the things Donovan has accomplished in his impressive soccer career so far.
Watch this years FIFA World Cup to see what is next for Donovan and the rest of Team USA.
